Hoi,
If nobody else is going, I could go and blog about it .. Please let me know
Thanks,
Gerard
On 7 June 2012 00:15, Rémi Mathis <mathis.remi(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Dear you,
Does anybody go to this conference on IMPACT program (aiming at improving
the OCR softwares, especially on early-printed books)?
Best,
Rémi
*
IMPACT event: Project Outcomes*
*Tuesday 26 June 2012, KB National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague*
The programme of this event is now available through *
http://www.digitisation.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/IMPACT_Program_26June2012.…
*<http://www.digitisation.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/IMPACT_Program_26June2012.pdf>
.
At this event, the IMPACT project outcomes will be presented by IMPACT
staff, along with results of several pilots that have been conducted with
some of the tools at IMPACT libraries in early 2012.
*IMPACT outcomes*
The IMPACT project (January 2008 - June 2012) is a European research
project focused on innovating OCR software and language technology to
improve the digitisation of historical printed text. IMPACT is led by the
KB National Library of the Netherlands. Our group of partners includes
several major European national libraries, universities, research centres
and two private sector companies (ABBYY and IBM Haifa). IMPACT recently
launched the IMPACT Centre of Competence (*www.digitisation.eu*), a
productive network of experts in digitisation that will build on the
research and development of partners from the IMPACT project and continue
to improve access to text.
At the end of the project in June 2012, IMPACT is presenting the
following results:
- The improved commercial OCR engine ABBYY FineReader 10 (the IMPACT
FineReader)
- IBM's Adaptive OCR engine with the CONCERT tool for OCR correction
- Computerlexica for 9 European languages and tools for lexicon
building
- A digitisation framework for demonstrating and evaluating tools and
results
- An invaluable dataset which can foster further research activities
- The Functional Extension Parser capable of decoding layout elements
of books
- A postcorrection tool with text and error profiler
- Novel Approaches to preprocessing and OCR for future development
- The IMPACT Centre of Competence for digitisation
*Registration and practical information*
Attendance of this event is free of charge, but we kindly ask you to
register in advance through *http://impactocr.eventbrite.com/*.
Kind regards,
Lieke Ploeger.
IMPACT Project Office | Sector Innovation & Development, Research
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